The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

The people section is a vital aspect of elementary school yearbooks. Here are five ideas for providing more coverage with the portraits.

It’s one of the most looked-at sections, but it receives the least attention from designers. But if we’re really creating yearbooks for the people, we should give them more love.

Merriam-Webster defines personal space as the distance from another at which one feels comfortable talking or being next to that other person. There’s an instinctive desire to protect this invisible

The title page is one of two single pages in the yearbook: page one and the last page. It follows the front endsheet and must convey essential information about the school and the year. It also needs

Introduce visual motifs that will be carried throughout the book on the cover 

A few years back, The Atlantic Monthly magazine set out to discover how creative ideas become concrete reality. For a “culture special report” headlined How Genius Works, the magazine asked artists

Halloween costumes and Santa hats. Turkey stuffing and Menorahs. The holidays are a time for food, fun and celebration. Let’s sprinkle some of that joy into the yearbook. 

Sometimes, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover. The cover is the first thing students and potential buyers see. There are multiple cover options to showcase the theme and wow the audience. The

There’s no need to stress over what the yearbook cover should look like. The simplyCREATE collection provides a variety of beautiful cover options, without having to worry about colors, fonts or